Aging fleets? The US airline industry churns aircraft out all the time. The only reason they are still flying ancient 757 and 767's is because Boeing isnt making new ones.

Licking ALL the boots. Touch 'em all (with your tongue)

Its not like your class warfare nonsense is without its own backers and agenda.

When u changing that username to Australia?

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No calls for war. But I'm not going pretend people are poor because they buy McDonald's.

Lol, its not McDonalds even...

https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-life/ ... -groceries

yeah, an average home cooked meal costs $5, an average meal out costs around $17. and there is no doubt that poor people eat out a lot...for proof?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-t ... 2016-06-10

So yeah, I dont buy the sob story at all. At the root of all this is a person's stupid decisions and bad habits.

You can get a McDonald's meal for less than $4. Chicken, fries and a large pop.

Same for breakfast.

Water, fresh meat and vegetables would easily cost more. Canned too.

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Australia has about as many people as I-95 from Boston to DC.

I had the pleasure of being there for three weeks about a decade ago, and spent some time with some second cousins and their parents (my dad's first cousins). It felt in many ways like the United States circa 1978, but with technology. I got sick with a bad sinus infection, and had to go to an ER. It was pretty spartan, but it only cost me about A$200. But I wouldn't have wanted to be really sick there, and this was one of the better hospitals in Sydney.

One of my second cousins put it best: Australia is small enough population wise, and new enough as a country removed from too much UK oversight, that they can wait and see what works and what fails in the US, Canada, Western Europe, and to a lesser extent SE Asia, and pick and choose what they like. But it wouldn't scale to ten times as much population.

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And besides, that was percentage of income. The poor spend more on eating out than all but the richest in American society.

So your real issue is one Ponzi scheme player takes more than the others.

This whole ship is going to sink. If you really want to help others, tell them to take their money out now. Before it’s too late.

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That's not a lot of chicken, maybe two ounces of protein.

But tonight I picked up two 4-piece dinners from Bojangles. Each had a side, a biscuit, and a 20 oz fountain drink. A shade under $18.

Now I'm not exactly a light eater. But I will get two dinners and the meat for two lunches from that. (Legs, wings, Mac and cheese, Cole slaw and a biscuit tonight, two thighs and the other biscuit tomorrow, two breasts each vacuum sealed in the freezer to pull out over the next two weeks). I'll make some mashed potatoes or some corn with the breasts, so call it $20 all in or $5/meal. I do this every three weeks.

Of course, Costco at $5 for a whole rotisserie chicken is a better meal albeit not tastier, and I buy two of those every six weeks. Even if you pay the $60/year membership and only buy 4 chickens a month, that's still only $7/chicken.

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If they sat an animal in the seat do you think that it would have tanked?

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GO BEARS!!!

Fine, but the most attractive parts of the meal are greasy, salt infused and then the pop that's more expensive than than water in many communities.

And I actually don't like chicken btw, except that it's a healthier protein than red meat and tastier? than beans or gravel.

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It doesn't really keep you satiated, it's not healthy, and when you start multiplying it by the # of people in your household it's not economical. You can feed a household of 3 or 4 on way less than 16-20 a dinner. I try to or can keep most of my dinners at $7-10 per night for 3-4 people.

My God, there are some horrible takes in this thread.

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Yeah, that's one of two splurge meals per week. The other is an expensive protein, such as lamb chops or a strip steak. My point was only that you can eat out and eat something filling and somewhat healthy for $5-7/adult.

Tonight's dinner is primarily roasted cauliflower with some mock buffalo sauce and olive oil. A good bit more healthy.

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Those at the top end of a Ponzi scheme always make more money.

They have more responsibility and investment in the scheme to keep it going.

Those at the bottom end, or new(er) investors in 401K and pension plans will end up holding the bag.

If they don't shut down the internet some day, they will come back here again and bitch about the rich again, all the while re-electing the same people that allowed the same scheme that MANY willingly participated in.

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Except when you go into how they spend their money you find tons of discretionary purchases and lots of just bonehead stupid financial decisions. I know I know, this where we talk about "education" being the issue. As if you cant just search on Google or YouTube "how to not be financially moronic", but then again that doesn't keep the excuse train running. If people ever had to actually accept responsibility for themselves that would be the end of leftism and entitlement mentality. That ideology crumbles at the sight of accountability.

Just like professional athletes, I'm sure he'll spend it on buying tigers and restaurant business and be bankrupt within a few years and I'll laugh at him.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

You can't fairly criticize people for financial decisions when the educational system and the cultural norms have failed them so miserably.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8w_A ... I3k6PR5Z6w

Free to anyone with an internet connection. You can watch it from a library. Its not prefect, but its quality and its done by PBS so its not some yahoo in his basement.

So really, all the education you really need on how not to be financially hopeless is out there.

I should add that the cultural norms are their own damn fault.